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I logged unique broadcasting Bluetooth devices for fun for a few months and I was amazed at how many hundreds if not thousands of devices it found.

And that logger was stationary. Unless you know and filter the Bluetooth address ranges of what you are looking for, you will be swamped with irrelevant data.

Side note: those Bluetooth beacons tracking people in stores are absolutely gobbling data.

Nothing wrong if you have the drivers, but if you find yourself in a pinch, they aren’t prevalent like Philips or standard screwdrivers. A socket set is part of our emergency kit now.

My SO’s car is a Ford (pretty reliable actually) and the first fix-it we did needed torx bits. Ugh, go out and get a set of those… come back and start again. I look around and they are everywhere. It might deter some, but to us it was a waste of time and a F-you to those of us who can fix our piles.

Oh, and a special F-you to whomever designed the absolute useless (not making it up; it’s a 4 inch hollow chunk or metal welded to the frame nothing bolts to, hides inside, or protects) protrusion blocking a wrench from the oil drain bolt. A pox on thee!

Don’t disagree with your post, I’ve gone that route too, but I have had a couple RAIDs crash over the decades and dashing to a computer store and slapping drives from a dead box to a new one got me back up and running the quickest.

I can totally build a server with my spare parts lying around, but my system doesn’t care when I have free time to tinker; assume it will fail at the worst possible time like the day you leave on vacation.

But yeah, if you’re pinching pennies, build something fun and learn along the way. Frustration is the key to memory permanence. 😁

Some people don’t like the update because it removed game modes among other features. Yeah, I could get them back by self hosting a server and modifying parameters, but it’s a hassle.

It would have been nice if they simply released a new app instead of overwriting an existing version.

On one hand, bummer. But on the other, sort of a waste of hardware anyway.

I was a big time pro user. G3 tower with DVD card, G5 dual, Mac Pro 5,1 with dual X5690’s and other upgrades. But I had to drag those systems kicking and screaming out of Apple’s walled garden to do what is second nature on the PC side of things. Loved the OS back then, but not all users were braindead drones.

“Pro” stopped being a moniker for advanced capability, instead the most expensive, least hobbled version.

I hope whomever replaces Cook (rumor has it) once again remembers what it was like to be a nerd under all that businessman authority.

I lost a beloved cat a few months ago that ran into the road. My security camera caught the whole thing.

“What if?” Is its own torment for us, but analytically, she simply wasn’t visible and there was nothing the driver could/should have done to prevent the horrible outcome.

There are in life no-win situations. It hurts, but it’s an adult realization. Cats go under cars to hide - to avoid being seen - and can’t grasp danger the same as humans.

Flying toaster > DVD logo

Fight me. 😁

Yahoo! Congrats to the Immich teams and developers!

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Bingo. I’ve used Synology for ages and while they dont last forever, I get a lot of use out of them and re-buy them usually with an upgrade in mind.

But the new hard drive policy broke that cycle. I don’t put up with that. I replaced one with a UGreen NAS last month. It’s too early to tell how I feel about it. Docker is there and containers spin up pretty easily. Rumor has it there is hardware support for video encoding too, though I haven’t gotten around to testing it.

He’s trying to provoke cities that had large “leftist” protests into violence, but we’re not biting. I’m pretty sure they are profiling activists who show up.

Are you confusing a signal jammer or an actual pulse? I’m no expert by any means, but the tech you’d have to lug around makes it pretty impractical.

Plus, there that whole pacemaker thingy, ya know? A pretty bad idea overall.

This is absolutely the gatekeeping and control Trump’s dictatorship wants to wield over companies and people. I’d be surprised if they stuck to precedent; their whole shtick is to rewrite application of law to their objectives, sidestepping Congress.

Even though there are some cloud services like remote server management, proxies, and 3rd party integration, I do actually have to run the software myself on my hardware. Hence, self hosted.

TLDW;

Dude is mind-blown to find out he should Taylor a resume to the job description.

Saved you time thankyouverymuch.

(Full disclaimer, I didn’t watch the whole thing either)

Edit: weirdbrain had more patience then me. Good enough for me.

Man, I would. I am 100% the target demographic, jumped in the 3D TV rabbit hole and loved it. Totally knew it was a gimmick, but didn’t care. Would have friends over for 3D movie parties.

But adding them to my Plex server sucked. TAB or SBS files were half-assed and the PlayStation I used took sooooooo damn long to freaking start the movie and skipping was an issue.

Why stop at chrome. Break off Android too. They are shitting all over that now.

I have the same sensors, but on many windows. If I have windows on either side of the house open simultaneously and there is a favorable temp difference outside vs inside, an automation turns on an air exchange fan. If they are closed, I use advanced heating control